A wee bit political?
From this week’s NY Times food column in the magazine:
“I’ve never subscribed to the marketers’ description of monkfish as the “poor man’s lobster”… If you see a whole monkfish at the market, you’ll find its massive mouth scarier than a shark’s. Apparently it sits on the bottom of the ocean, opens its Godzilla jaws and waits for poor unsuspecting fishies to swim right into it, not unlike the latest recepients of W’s capital-gains cuts. So it has in common with lobster only reprehensibility of character.”
Sometimes the food column gets kinda weird.
In fact, so long as we’re on the subject of odd news quotes, this one’s from Nerve’s Carrie Hill Wilner:
[I]t was reported this week that a company called Real Men Outdoor Productions Inc. has begun offering “Bambi Hunts,” in which Las Vegas-area men pay $10,000/hour to shoot naked women with paintballs. I suppose this should provoke some sort of feminist rage in me, but in all honesty, this is too weird to be sexist. It’s just apocalyptic.
Yeah, that’s about right…
&*%^$*(!
Apparently, the past four hours of coding RPC function calls could have been replaced, completely, with a single line of code, which would also be faster, more reliable, and use less memory.
Bugger.
Dear gods…
Something I came across today while working: Students for War.
As far as I can tell, they’re serious. And personally, I find this very disturbing – the attitude of people who very obviously have never been anywhere close to an actual war. Or if they have, and still have this attitude, then this is even more fscked-up than I thought.
Incidentally, they don’t seem to be advocating any particular war. Until fairly recently, their site was advocating war with Iraq; now they’re advocating war with North Korea, and on their site are hints that they’re interested in Syria and Iran soon afterwards. Now, while I may agree with some (most certainly not all!) of their individual statements, the idea of forming a group for the simple purpose of advocating bloodshed in general seems somewhere between lunatic and demoniac.
Perhaps I’m reacting too much to an (amazingly) ill-conceived name; but these people seem like the exact sort of people I would like to keep the hell away from.
Your amusement for the day…
Making the rounds at work. Someone has obviously put a great deal of thought into this – perhaps a bit too much.
Um…
I just read the most amazing/disturbing review of the latest Harry Potter. It’s worth reading, with or without the book, just because it’s so remarkably over-the-top with its references and giant enumerations. Either the writer (John Leonard) is an enormous fan of Umberto Eco, or he was very, very stoned when he wrote this, or both.
Whew….
It is moved. All the furniture’s in the new place, and modulo some assembly work (fairly light) and some last few things to move (a few lamps, etc.) the new place is ready for commissioning. A few more days and it should be completely liveable.
Blue elf needs coffee badly.
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